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War in the Bible: an Examination of Biblical Conflict and Violence
The Bible doesn’t flinch at portraying the world’s violence, especially during wartime. And while there is no such thing as a kind and gentle war, you might be surprised to learn t...
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Four Views on the Historical Adam: C. John Collins Says "A Historical Adam, Old-Earth Creation"
This week we are engaging what Richard Ostling calls "a groundbreaking science-and-Scripture dispute." This so-called dispu...
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Four Views on the Historical Adam: John Walton Says "A Historical Adam, Archetypal Creation"
This week we are engaging what Richard Ostling calls "a groundbreaking science-and-Scripture dispute." This so-called disput...
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Four Views of the Historical Adam: Denis Lamoureux Says "No Historical Adam, Evolutionary Creation"
For the better part of a decade I have noticed a shift within evangelical origins conversations from merely the temporal and methodological ...
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“I have the right to do anything” ( 1 Cor 6:12) Really? — Mondays with Mounce 210
Does Paul really believe that “I have the right to do anything” ( 1 Cor 6:12)? Really? Anything?
Of course not. Paul does not have the righ...
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Extracurricular Activities — December 14, 2013
Tim Challies on The People's Pope, The (TIME) Man of The Year
The world reacted with shock when, on March 13, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was...
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Christianity Today's 2014 Book Award for Biblical Studies: "Paul and Union with Christ" by Con Campbell
Congratulations to Constantine Campbell, who's just been awarded the 2014 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies for his book...
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Is Monasticism Exceptional or Normal? — An Excerpt from "Church History, Vol. 1, 2nd Ed."
 
I am a student of history, particularly Church history. There is much to discover (or perhaps rediscover) about the beliefs a...
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My Advice to Students — Daniel Block Says "When You Wrestle with the Text, Wrestle with the Text."
In our ongoing video series of advice to students from biblical scholars, Daniel Block, Old Testament professor at Wheaton College and autho...
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Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy: John Franke and "The Bible as Witness to Missional Plurality"
For the past few weeks we have been engaging a new timely resource, Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy, that represents som...
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Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy: Kevin Vanhoozer and "Literary Meaning, Literal Truth, and Literate Interpretation in the Economy of Biblical Discourse"
At the 65th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society three weeks ago we introduced a new timely resource releasing today,...
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Evangelical Theology Blog Tour Round-Up
  At the end of October we gave away a number of Michael Bird's new systematic theology book, Evangelical Theology. Reviews ...
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Did a Soldier Want to "Please the One Who Enlisted Him”? (2 Tim 2:4) — Mondays with Mounce 209
I was asked a question at SBL by a person whose son is in the military. He said that his son, and many of his military buddies, objected to...
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Extracurricular Activities — December 7, 2013
Larry Hurtado on the “Jesus’ Wife” Fragment
A few weeks ago I asked here what further news there was about the so-called “Jesus’ wife” frag...
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Does Your Career Define You? Excerpt from “Multi-Careering” by Bob Goff
Whether you are a pastor, professor, ministry leader, or graduate student, it is easy to make your career your identity. It's almost ine...
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A Preview of the Four Evangelical Views of the Historical Adam
In the past decade a new front in the science vs. faith debate has opened up within evangelicalism. While the historic struggle between evol...
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"Introduction to Messianic Judaism": An Approach to the Bible and Christianity That Relates to Judaism and Jewish Ethnicity
Perhaps you are like me and are largely unfamiliar with the deeply historic movement of Messianic Judaism. In his introductory essay t...
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